John Vogt

John Vogt   (pilot)
Born	March 18, 1920 Elizabeth, New Jersey
Died	April 16, 2010 (Age 90) Melbourne (Florida), Florida
Nationality	US
Alma mater	Yale University, Columbia University
US Air Force officer with extensive work for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the bombing of Vietnam, who attended the 1971 Bilderberg meeting. After retirement, part of Team B, a rigged intelligence analyst group to inflate the Soviet threat.  Director of the Joint Staff In office 1970 - April 7, 1972, Employer Joint Chiefs of Staff Attended Bilderberg/1971.

General John William Vogt, Jr. was an US Air Force officer with extensive work for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He attended the 1971 Bilderberg meeting, at a time when he was involved in the bombing of Vietnam. He was commander of the United States Air Forces in Europe from June 1974 until his retirement in 1975. After retirement, he became part of Team B, a rigged intelligence analyst group to inflate the Soviet threat as much as possible.

Education

Vogt was born in 1920. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Yale University and his master of arts from Columbia University. He was also a fellow of the Harvard School for International Affairs.

Career

In 1941 he entered the Army Air Corps as an aviation cadet, and fought as a fighter pilot in World War 2.

In 1951, he was assigned to the Office of the Special Assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff for National Security Council Affairs, where he worked with the senior staff, and later, the planning board of the National Security Council.

In August 1955 he became assistant deputy for plans and operations, Headquarters Far East Air Forces, Japan. The following year, he was transferred to Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, as the special assistant to the chief of staff, commander in chief, Pacific.

In 1960 Vogt was assigned to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, as deputy assistant director of plans where he functioned as the Air Force planner in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Later, he became the assistant director of plans for joint matters, with responsibility for the preparation of Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force positions for consideration of the chief of staff.

In February 1963 he became the director of the policy planning staff, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs. In this assignment, he was head of the staff of defense department planners, both civilian and military, who participated in the drafting of political/military plans.

In August 1965 he began a three-year tour of duty as deputy for plans and operations, Pacific Air Forces, in which capacity he participated in the planning and direction of the Air Campaign against North Vietnam. He left Hawaii in June 1968 to become assistant deputy chief of staff for plans and operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force.

In August 1969 he joined the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as director for operations (J-3). On July 20, 1970, he became director of the Joint Staff, a position he held until April 7, 1972, when he was promoted to general. He assumed duty as commander, Seventh Air Force (PACAF), and deputy commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam, on April 10, 1972. General Vogt was responsible for air operations inSoutheast Asia for the last eighteen months of United States combat activity. With the cease-fire in Vietnam he became the commander of the U.S. Support Activities Group in Thailand which conducted all U.S. air activities in Laos and Cambodia until U.S. combat involvement ceased in August 1973. He became commander in chief of Pacific Air Forces on Oct. 1, 1973, and assumed command of AAFCE and United States Air Forces in Europe in June 1974.

He retired from the Air Force on August 31, 1975.

Team B

Full article: Team B

The Team B exercise was an alternative review of the CIA's National Intelligence Estimates commissioned by George H. W. Bush when he became CIA director in 1976, at the behest of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. It has been described by Tom Barry as a "classic case of threat escalation by hawks determined to increase military budgets and step up the U.S. offensive in the cold war".

Early UFO sighting

In a 1978 oral interview, Vogt told how he:

I was, and the records will probably confirm this, the first UFO (unidentified flying object) officer in the Air Force. Back in those day. unidentified flying objects were being reported for the first time. I was at Mitchel Field, which was the headquarter of the Interceptor Command, and they gave the job of identifying some of these early scurries of flying objects to the intelligence people. And since I was chief of the Estimates Division, they gave the job of estimating what these unidentified objects were to me. I had an interesting time with some of the early sightings. I remember one day I was out flying an airplane. It an old C-45 Beechcraft twin-engine. We were on our way back one night from a trip somewhere in the South. We were down in the Richmond area when the copilot who was with me looted out and said, "Hey there is something flying on our wing". I looked over there and here is this bright, purple light sitting off the wing. We looked at it and couldn't identify it. It seemed to be going at exactly the same speed, and all of a sudden it veered around and sat off our left wing. We watched this thing for, oh, maybe an hour, unable to identify it. I called on the radio and got no response, then I asked the controllers in the area if they had traffic reported in the area of our airplane, and no results. So we came back, and I filed an unidentified flying object report, and it came back to me at my desk for disposition. I think there is some explanation for everything that has been seen. I certainly don't believe that we're being visited by people from outer space.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1971	23 April 1971	25 April 1971	US Vermont Woodstock Woodstock Inn	The 20th Bilderberg, 89 guests

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